Brian Eule

Feb 6, 2024 | hsfoundation.org | Jorge Cino |Madeleine Sheehan Perkins |Brian Eule

Tamir Kalifa is a freelance photojournalist based in Texas who has documented communities impacted by gun violence, the U.S.-Mexico border, civil unrest, environmental issues such as the Maui fire, and political campaigns. Over the past two years, a focus of Mr. Kalifa’s work has been capturing the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, centering the collective mourning and mobilization of this tightly-knit community.

Sep 7, 2023 | hsfoundation.org | Brian Eule |Nondas Paschos

The Heising-Simons Foundation is joining a coalition of 21 other donors to create Press Forward, a new national grantmaking initiative with the goal to strengthen local news and information with a combined more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will re-center local news as a force for community cohesion; support new models and solutions that are ready to scale; and close longstanding inequities in journalism coverage and practice.

Aug 30, 2023 | philanthropy.com | Brian Eule

The for-profit journalism model is broken. Fox, MSNBC, and CNN air opinion disguised as news because they know anger, fear, and conflict draw eyeballs, which in turn result in greater advertising revenue. Speculation on who leads a political race more than a year away, with pundits pontificating on soundstages, costs a lot less than sending reporters out to cover communities. Local for-profit news intensifies misconceptions on the prevalence of crime.